From Richard Winger at Independent Voter Network, reprinted here with permission from the author:
California’s existing election system for Congress and state office could be improved with the following ideas.…
Posts published in July 2015
From a Constitution Party email blast:
Do you believe this?
• Political scientist Ronald Rapaport wrote the book on third parties. Literally. It’s called “Three’s a Crowd,” and indeed it is.…
The Libertarian Party of Alabama has announced it will host a rally to bring ride-hailing services to Birmingham.
The event – that will seek to raise awareness and support for companies such as Uber and Lyft to come to Birmingham – will be held Friday, July 31 at Birmingham City Hall, according to the party’s Facebook page.…
In an editorial this morning The Philadelphia Inquirer writes that “fortunately, the federal courts have finally taken aim at one egregious aspect of the two-party stranglehold in Pennsylvania: the absurd procedural and monetary barriers preventing third-party candidates from even appearing on the ballot.…
A SurveyUSA poll on the Kentucky gubernatorial race shows that independent candidate Drew Curtis, founder of news aggregator Fark.com and author of “It’s Not News, It’s FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News,” is drawing eight percent against Democrat Jack Conway (43%) and Republican Matt Bevin (38%).…